It also shows us that white people like to and are use to seeing black people suffer, more that usual. The poem tells us about how racist some whites are about blacks because of the words and actions whites do, from “you may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes”. The media often suggests that all black women are whores and rape victims, but blacks value themselves and their sexuality greatly.
Angelon is looking forward to a bright future, for black people.
Angelous poem has very meaningful imagery such as “cause I laugh like I have got gold mines digging in my own back yard”, this means that she is proud and confident.
Also “out of the huts of histories shame, I rise”, this means that she forgets all history, it does not matter to her.
There is one main phrase that she uses and repeats this is “Ill rise”, she repeats this phrase in almost every paragraph to make people remember it and to make it stand out. The way the poem is set out that the first section of the 4 paragraphs describes how much pain and sorrow that black people have suffered and the other 3 paragraphs explain how blacks define what whites expect, and how good life is and how it will become in the distant future.
The Rhythm is very unique and different because it is wrote as a form of song for black people to chant it is about how good life is and how blacks are becoming more powerful.
Grace Nicholas wrote this poem “Realities Of Black Women” to make people feel sorry about how black women have suffered and have been oppressed in the past and present.
This poem is not written as a song, nor has a regular Rhythm. This is intended to reflect the fact that Grace Nicholas does not want to be restricted by rules.
Grace Nicholas sends a message through the poem; she tells us that non-black people have an incorrect picture in there mid of how black people are, and how they make a living, such as being prostitutes. She tells us about how she wants the real life of black women to come forward, and to correct the lies that white people have of them. She talks about how she cannot write a poem big enough to talk about a black women, or any type of women, “no poem big enough to hold a black women, or a green women, or a white women” which means that every women is different that you cannot write about all black women because every one is different and has different views and personalities. She goes on and tells me that she likes to see black people being proud and “full of we selves” and forgetting the incorrect history and lies that they have inherited.
The differences between “Still I Rise” and “Realities of Black Women” is firstly, the name of the “poem still I rise” is called that because that the poet wanted people to remember it, the word, because it is the main pointer of the poem. Whereas in the poem “Realities Of Black Women” it is the beginning of the poem, because it means there’s no way possible to talk about everything about black women, so it is slightly poking fun at the person who asked her to do a poem on that subject. In the poem “Realities Of Black Women” it talks about how impossible it is the talk about a race of people paticurly black women because everyone is different so you cannot take a guess on how every one is the same. But on the poem “Still I rise” it talks more about how black women have been suppressed and deprived and how it will change, also it is about how the media make people have a picture in their head on how a black women is, which is incorrect.
The poem I prefer is “still I rise” because it is set out in a form of a chant or song that the black slaves in the past would sing, which I think is motivating and inspirational.